S’NO WORRIES!
jered.korfhage@fourwheeler.com
Whether driving in the snow is a daily task or a seasonal luxury, it pays to have tires that can perform when the ground beneath you turns to white. Follow along as we dig into the finer points of choosing tires for snowy conditions and share our thoughts about 11 tires after we drove them on and off the road in wintry conditions.
M+S Tires
Don’t be fooled; the M+S notation on your tires does not necessarily mean the tire is a snow tire. In fact, the M+S designation is strictly a standard (read: no assessment of performance). Official documents from the U. S. Tire Manufacturers Association detail design cues that that are said to enhance a tire’s performance in mud and snow over non-M+S tires, such as orientation of the edges/pockets in the tread pattern and the percentage of the contact surface that’s taken up by voids (spaces between tread blocks). Tires marketed as all-season, all-weather, and even your mud- and all-terrains, can carry the
